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[Unknown Member]

Hey DGC! This is something I get mixed feelings about. Curious to see what you all think.

I’ve gotten a vast majority of my knowledge from the 70s OG growers around my area. They all swear by using miracle grow moisture control potting mix, worm castings and an hps light, and using budswell guano in your watering schedule.

Since this is my first grow, I used miracle grow, but I mixed in, motherless soil, biochar, worm castings, and I do mix bat guano in my water…

Does anyone else use guano? Why are some growers against it? Is it personal preference? I’ve heard good and bad, curious to see what everyone thinks!😎💨🤟

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[phenominal_phenos]

Personal for some like myself who are vegan for instance, but guano is HOT!!!

Not saying don’t use it…If you do, be careful. It has tons of nitrogen. It is easy to burn your plants with guano or any animal feces/fertilizer.

So, I wouldn’t use it for personal preference. Also, where it is sourced or how it is sourced may be a personal issue for some too.

Remember, the only one who has an opinion that matters is you. Your plants will thrive or suffer because of it.

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[turbo]

I use Seabird guano, early flower I make a base compost tea and suspend a filter bag/airstone with a scoop of guano. I do not add quano after week 6 for personal reasons mainly, without starting a battle on whether to flush or not anyways. 😆

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[Unknown Member]

I’ve been using the down to earth bat guano, I hand water in 1 gallon pots. Mix up guano in 1 gallon jugs, with hot water an let em steep for a day.

I’ve been watering with the guano tea when the ladies wake up, and I use well water before they go to sleep. Doing it that way I’m not sure if I’ll need to flush them or not?

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[Casadelwhacko]

I put up boxes around the property, on trees, eaves of the house and outbuildings too. Took a minute to get the kids and neighborhood yard rats to stay out of the areas where they are, but it has paid off. At the base of where they are mounted I built square boxes with screen to allow it to sift as it dries. I had to learn to handle it safely too. Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, lack of food (when pesticides and chemicals kill their insect food sources), pesticide bioaccumulation (when bats eat a lot of insects sprayed with pesticides, they are exposed to increasingly high levels of toxins). Hunting and poaching, White Nose Syndrome (a fungal disease that disrupts bat’s natural hibernation cycles) and

commercial harvesting of guano are all making it difficult on the little bastards. If you own a home, plywood is cheap and mosquitoes suck! I started worm beds at the bases as well. We compost in small hills and have even begun keeping bees. Fuck, this plant has turned me into a hippie!🤘🏼🤣🤘🏼

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[Unknown Member]

That’s awesome! And an excellent idea! I like the bat house idea! And I will definitely be doing that. I wanna get bees as well, but I’m a one man show here….. and have already bitten off about as much as I can chew as far as chores….my chicken coop gives me some excellent compost.

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[Casadelwhacko]

Working on that today. Trying to situate the coop where I can rotate their yard around it every year and amend that soil in a three year rotation. Great way to have fertilizer on hand con$istently. I have cherry, peach and apple trees, 40+ raspberry canes and 20+ blackberry bushes. 400 sq ft of strawberries along with every cruciferous vegetable and microgreen you can think of. I have kids, but it’s pretty much a one man operation here too…. 🤣

If you’re close, I’d love to come help someday! CNC in my shop can make short work of bat, bee and sifting boxes…🤘🏼

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by  Casadelwhacko.

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